Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To 🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Mar 23, 2004 03:49 AM UTC:I've just been browsing through the patents on Chess variants and have learned some curious things. There is a game called America's Chess, and the new piece in this game is called a Pope. With a name like America's Chess, I might expect a new piece with a name like Eagle, Minuteman, or President, but I would never expect Pope. In 1977, Michael J. Corinthios of Montreal patented a game called Grandchess. That's 8 years before Christiaan Freeling invented his game. This game is listed in Pritchard's Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, but the GRANDCHESS entry just refers you to the MINISTERS entry. Grandchess is the only name I found in the patent. He uses the same name in a second 1988 patent. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Chess Patents does not match any item.